TikTok’s running a range of events to highlight the contributions of Asian and Pacific Islander creators.
Twitter Tests New Option to Attach Video, Images and GIFs to a Single Tweet
The option could facilitate a range of new creative considerations for your tweets.
Instagram Expands Live Testing of 90 Second Reels
Longer Reels is the next stage in Instagram’s broader video shift.
Watch What Developers Are Making With Snapchat’s AR Glasses
Snapchat shared a video showing what developers have been building with its Spectacles AR glasses:
On|Metaverse: The lessons I learned organizing a physical event about VR
On Thursday, April 21st, in Italy there has been the first edition of the On|Metaverse Summit, an amazing hybrid event
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Wallace & Gromit is Coming to Quest 2 in ‘Grand Getaway’ Interactive VR Experience
Wallace & Gromit, Britain’s iconic stop-motion duo, are getting their own interactive VR experience on Meta Quest 2 next year, developed by series creator Aardman, Meta, and VR pioneers Atlas V. Called Wallace & Gromit: The Grand Getaway, the interactive, single player VR experience promises to take fans along with Wallace and Gromit on a summer […]
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Quest Users Can Now Watch YouTube Together Thanks to ‘Bigscreen’ Update
Bigscreen is putting Meta to shame again, as the VR hangout app just got a serious bump in functionality for Quest users and PC VR users alike. Now VR’s favorite social viewing app includes native YouTube support, so you can watch anything on YouTube with friends and strangers. Bigscreen has now added the version of YouTube […]
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Expedition 67 Crew Wraps Up Week After Crew Arrival and Spacewalk
Two Roscosmos cosmonauts went on a spacewalk to activate the new European robotic arm (ERA) less than a day after the SpaceX Crew-4 mission arrived at the International Space Station. The next mission event taking place will occur next week when four Expedition 67 astronauts complete their stay aboard the orbiting lab. Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev …
Cosmonauts Set Up Robotic Arm’s First Motion, Wrap Up Spacewalk
Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev of Roscosmos concluded their spacewalk outside of the International Space Station at ?6:40 p.m. EDT after 7 hours and 42 minutes. Artemyev and Matveev completed their major objectives during the spacewalk, which included monitoring the first commanded movements of the robotic arm from its grapple fixtures after removing …
Nextech AR Inks Deal for 3D Auto Parts Modelling
Nextech AR has inked a major deal with Genuine Parts Company, a global auto parts distribution firm, to provide 3D modelling and decorating via the former’s ARitize augmented reality (AR) studio, the company announced on Thursday. The studio will convert 2D images to 3D models with Nextech AR’s artificial intelligence (AI)-backed solutions. The Vancouver, Canada-based […]
LG Teases XR Headset amid Steep Competition
On Tuesday, South Korean technology firm LG teased an upcoming extended reality (XR) product that leverages virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) solutions via its LG Display sub-division. In a first-quarter earnings conference call, an LG representative explained, “We are closely monitoring the XR market and are preparing to enter it quickly if profitability and […]
Meta Profits Rally Despite Mixed Q1 Revenues
Meta Platforms Inc saw shares skyrocket 18 percent on Wednesday following first quarter (Q1) earnings report, global media reported on Thursday. Meta earned $2.72 USD compared to its estimated earnings per share of $2.56, CNBC reported, citing a Refinitiv analysts survey, which also estimated the firm’s revenues to hit $30.6 billion, up from initial $28 […]
Ristband is Supporting Live Events with Immersive Tech
XR Today’s Rory Greener hosts Anne McKinnon, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer and Roman Rappak, Co-Founder and Chief Executive of Ristband. Watch and subscribe on YouTube. In this session we discuss the following: How do virtual live events reinterpret human relationships? Immersive eCommerce opportunities How is the Partner Labs Program enhancing Metaverse solutions? If you’re […]
Google Analytics 4 Migration: How to Prepare
Are you ready to shift from Universal Analytics to Google Analytics 4 (GA4)? Wondering how to prepare and what to expect when the change comes? To discover exactly how Google Analytics is changing, what GA4 is, how to prepare, and how to set proper expectations with your boss or clients for the future of their data, I interview Chris Mercer.
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Google Will Now Enable Users to Request Removals for Search Results That Contain Personal Information
The update expands on Google’s ‘Right to be Forgotten’ policies.
Pinterest Adds 2 Million Users in Q1, Flags Ongoing Revenue Impacts
Pinterest’s Q1 results show some good signs, though many questions remain about the app’s future potential.
Facebook User Growth Back on Track, Revenue Declines in Q1
Meta continues to add users, though impacts from Apple’s ATT update, and the war in Ukraine, have impacted revenue performance.
Pinterest Shares Key Wedding Search Trends Ahead of Wedding Season
Wedding season is upon us, and Pinterest has some new insights into the latest, rising wedding search trends in the app.
Oculus Unreal Engine 5 Branch Now Available, But Key Features Don’t Work In VR
An Oculus branch of Unreal Engine 5 is now available, but the engine’s headline features don’t work in VR.
How to Conduct a Social Media Audit in Just Three Steps
A quick Google search returns 2 billion results for “social media audit.” But no matter how many headlines promise to help you do it effectively, there’s really no such thing as an effective social media strategy if you don’t tie it to your audience. In this article, we’ll show you three steps you can take […]
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‘After the Fall’ Gets New Arsenal, Free-for-all Mode & More in ‘Shock & Awe’ Update, Trailer Here
After the Fall (2021), the co-op zombie shooter from Vertigo Games, is getting a nice little content bump today in its ‘Shock & Awe’ update, which brings to the game a new arsenal of weapons, a free-for-all deathmatch mode, and a new map. Launched earlier this year, the game’s Frontrunner Season has already brought a […]
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Varjo Launches Its XR Cloud Streaming Platform, Support for Unity & Unreal Planned
Varjo today announced the launch of Varjo Reality Cloud, the company’s XR cloud streaming platform that’s aimed at making XR more scalable in enterprise settings by doing the heavy lifting of rendering in the cloud. At the outset the company is targeting the automotive industry, but plans to enable enterprises more broadly with support for […]
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Zuckerberg Warns Shareholders: Metaverse Investments May Not Flourish Until 2030s
Today during Meta’s Q1 2022 earnings call CEO Mark Zuckerberg told shareholders that they should buckle up for the long haul because the company’s steep investments in XR and metaverse technologies aren’t expected to flourish until the next decade. Today Meta gave its shareholders a quarterly update, in which the company overviewed its latest earnings […]
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Spacewalkers Exit Station to Activate New Robotic Arm
Expedition 67 Flight Engineers Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev of Roscosmos began Russian spacewalk 53 at 10:58 a.m. EDT to continue to activating the new European robotic arm – a 37-foot-long manipulator system mounted to the recently arrived Nauka module. Coverage of the spacewalk continues on NASA Television,?the?NASA app,?and the agency’s?website. During the spacewalk, the …
NASA TV Broadcasting Fifth Spacewalk of the Year Today
NASA Television coverage is underway as two Russian cosmonauts prepare to venture outside the International Space Station to continue activating the new European robotic arm – a 37-foot-long manipulator system mounted to the recently arrived Nauka module. Expedition 67 Flight Engineers Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev of Roscosmos will conduct the second in a series spacewalk that …